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 [The BEING HAD Times] Media, Union State, WTO, EU radio, PACE blasts... : After yesterday’s appearance of the head of Lukashenka’s initiative group Viktar Shejman in the TV program “Panarama” of the Belarusian state TV, heads of other initiative groups wrote to the Belarusian TV and to the Central Election Committee and stated their wish to appear on the state TV channel with their comment on the election campaign developments, and with estimation of the situation differing from Shejman’s, the Radio Svaboda informs.

 [Aquarian Conspirators: ALERTS, NEWS, COMMENTARY, and the occasional Rant] US FRANCHISED TORTURE REFUSES TO GO AWAY: Paul Craig Roberts, Hoover Institution senior fellow and assistant secretary of the treasury under Ronald Reagan, has charged Bush with "lies and an illegal war of aggression, with outing CIA agents, with war crimes against Iraqi civilians, with the horrors of the Abu Gharib and Guantanamo torture centers" and calls for the president's impeachment. Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton and former president of the American Society of International Law, declares: "These policies make a mockery of our claim to stand for the rule of law.

 [Essays & articles] On the Trail of the CIA: Burton Gerber, the former head of the Moscow unit is convinced that torture "corrupts every society that tolerates it." Larry Johnson, a former CIA agent and foreign ministry anti-terror expert says "What real CIA field officers know firsthand is that it is better to build a relationship of trust ...than to extract quick confessions through tactics such as those used by the Nazis and the Soviets." And ex-agent Baer, whose life was the inspiration for the Hollywood thriller "Syriana," is even certain that "this story will destroy the CIA."

 [LoopyLibrarian] Leccy on the Heap: cervical cancer, often caused by HPV, causes the death of about 300,000 people annually worldwide, including roughly 3,700 in the U.S. (Johnson, AP/Long Island Newsday, 10/6).

 [Incepem.blogspot.com] INCEPEM BLOG: Periferic 7: In the rush to change after 1989, to become a "grown up" member of modernEurope, to transform into a working, economically viable democracy, Romaniansociety has not been alerted to the cost that this metamorphosis may beextracting from its children. Even attentive parents and teachers find it verydifficult to stand up to the onslaught of this new Romanian society which is sodriven by market forces, without any thought to the social cost and consequences of this aggressive marketing.

[Drivelwarehouse.com] The Supermercado Project » Blog Archive » Closing Ceremony: Despite forgetting what the buttons were - which is a pretty pissweak effort given that the Nintendo only ever had an A and B button - and getting off to a terrible start I managed to storm home for a 5th place finish behind the realistically victorious USA. Incidentally the first Olympic game that allows me to select any country I want from China right down to North Korea via Panama and the Cayman Islands with full national anthems will be my god.

[Globalvoicesonline.org] Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Romania: Hungary Day: Tomorrow is the day when Hungarian nationalists in Udvarhely, a Romanian city whose population is 98% ethnic Hungarian, may clash with their Romanian counterparts, reports Andy H of Csikszereda musings: “[…] And once again the fact that broadly speaking Hungarians and Romanians live together fairly successfully and without rancour, will be obscured by a bunch of nationalist scum - Vadim Tudor will get his publicity, as will the Szekely Autonomists, and everyone on the extremes is happy. Everyone caught in the middle gets screwed.

 [Freiburg-home.com] History Of The German Language: During the 1870s, the German language successfully replaced Latin as the dominant language in all major European and North American universities, thanks to the prominence of German universities at the time. Most important research in the sciences from that point forward was published in German, and new universities preferred German instead of Greek or Latin mottos (e.g., Stanford University.) In the 1930s, many brilliant scientists (Albert Einstein) and philosophers (Hannah Arendt) fled from Germany to the United States, where they learned English and began to publish in that language.

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